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11. Internationales Festival Zeichen der Nacht / Berlin Edition
24th International Festival Signs of the Night / Worldwide

June 9 - 14, 2026

Kino & Bar in der Königstadt - - - Straßburger Straße 55 - - - 10405 Berlin (Prenzelberg)

 




Berlin

Kino & Bar in der Königstadt
Straßburger Str. 55

Thurday June 11th, 2026
18 h (6pm)


 

Opera

Igor Zelic
Croatia / 2026 / 0:19:39


"Opera" is an experimental film that explores perception through a filmic collage constructed with the help of a sin- gle light source. Through layered manipulation of that sin- gle source, the frame gains the rhythm of multiple sources and a play of light that transforms space and perception. This is a film about how an image can conceal reality – and what happens when it can no longer do so.

BERLIN PREMIERE


 

Elegy for the Lost

William Hong-xiao Wie
France, Spain, United Kingdom / 2025 / 0:30:00

An essay film that adopts a lyrical and distinctly queering approach to sexual identity, social dynamics, and everyday life in contemporary China. Through the psychoanalytic and introspective voiceover of a young post-pandemic Chinese migrant in Europe, the film interweaves her private memories of intimacy with public narratives of resistance. As her reflections unfold, she and her community navigate secrecy, repression, survival, looming precarity, and displacement, confronting the personal cost of existing in the current age of turbulence and regression, in a world that demands their silence.


 

Thought/Action

Dirk de Bruyn
Australia / 2026 / 0:10:27


Initiated in 1996 and belated completed in 2026, this home-processed 16mm film material was inspired by Marc Adrian's Total (1968) and incorporates Moucle Blackout and Laszlo Dudas's voices. Parially shot at Hearst's San Simeon Castle, Canada and Royal Melbourne Show. It is an exploration of overcoming traumatic thoughts through materialist actions onto the film surface. The completion gap demonstrates the power of and resistance to traumatic events.


 

A Cenotaph For Jane Doe

Andrew Hahn
United States /2024 / 0:08:57

On trial is a woman without an identity. We hear her thoughts and recollections of life and, eventually, her hope for reincarnation. A CENOTAPH FOR JANE DOE includes dialogue from various Julie Newmar roles, set to a slightly altered track by Cluster. The montage of subjective-camera shots was sourced from 46 classic films.


GERMAN PREMIERE



 





Spheres

Martin Gerigk
Germany / 2029 / 0:05:52

Spheres is an homage to life, a poetic essay that drifts through a series of expanding spheres, each revealing a different layer of our shared reality, from the microscopic to the mythical. The film is an exploration of how the smallest vibrations of existence echo outward into the vast architecture of being and cosmos, a breathing meditation designed to remind us of the wonders of our incomprehensibly beautiful world. Spheres invites viewers to look closely, to listen deeply, and to remember that every sphere - no matter how small or vast - is part of one continuous unfolding. The film is an invitation to see life not as a ladder but as a constellation of spheres: interdependent, fragile, and astonishing.

GERMAN PREMIERE


 

The Hermit

Alberto Baroni
Italy / 2025 / 0:09:00

“The truth you seek, Hermit, did not come into this world bare, but came in images.” With this realization, a hermit traveling through India, suspended between meditation on Mount Arunachala in Tiruvannamalai and a trip to the temples of Mahabalipuram, reflects on the sense of images in the earthly dimension and, therefore, on the final meaning of his own spiritual pursuit.

GERMAN PREMIERE